🇺🇸💰 It is 'wrong' to add $6.2bln for Ukraine aid to US spending bill, McCarthy says

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy slammed the bipartisan government funding measure advanced by lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate, saying: “They're picking Ukraine over Americans.”

💬 "If they want to put focus on Ukraine and not focus on the southern border, I think their priorities are backwards," he added.

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🇷🇺📹 Russian Tornado-G MLRS in action

The Tornado-G MLRS is a highly mobile, long-range artillery system capable of firing a range of rockets and guided missiles.

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🇸🇧🇺🇸 ‘More respect to Pacific leaders’: Solomon Islands PM explains why he is skipping meeting with Biden

Manasseh Sogavare said the US wants to "lecture you and lecture you" about "how good they are," and suggested that the Pacific Leaders' Summit, which will be hosted by the White House this week, needs a rethink.

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In this fresh episode of our New Rules podcast, we are joined by Indian geopolitical analyst Abhijit Chavda.

Why has the West decided to go against India? And how will India respond? Why does Canada provide violent Khalistan separatists and Ukrainian Nazis a safe haven to operate? Find out in our show!

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🇨🇦 American comedian Rob Schneider has refused to travel to Canada after honoring an SS veteran in the country's parliament.

The actor, who has Jewish roots, wrote in social network X (ex-Twitter) that the incident was "beyond the pale", so he just can't help canceling his visit to Canada.

Schneider also strongly condemned the policies of Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.

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❗️Canada must bring to justice or extradite a Nazi SS veteran celebrated in the country's parliament - Kremlin says

Kremlin also commented on Zelensky's applause for the Nazi in the Canadian Parliament: We can sympathize with Ukrainian veterans, including his grandfather.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 In the wake of one year passing since the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the attack was organized by the US and the UK in one way or another.

Information from Hersh’s investigation basically coincides with what is available to the Russian security services, he added.

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'Very, very steady:' Insight from 🇮🇳 EAM Jaishankar on Russia-India Relationship

💬 When asked about what New Delhi thinks about the growing ties between Moscow and Beijing, Jaishankar replied that India's ties with Russia have been "very, very steady" and the Modi gov't takes "great care to make sure the relationship is working."

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It’s about time! 😏 Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus interviewed Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a transgender former spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The jokesters posed as former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

In the first part of the video, "Poroshenko" shares a personal story: his son is on a "transition" path and is looking for an LGBTQ+ battalion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ashton-Cirillo not only knows "some units to contact with," but also states the exact number of LGBTQ+ people among the Ukrainian militants.

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🇷🇺👨‍🚀 Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio landed in Kazakhstan

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🇷🇺🪖 Sergey Shoigu inspects production process at Tactical Missile Armament Corporation enterprise

Over the past six months, the output of precision weapons has increased twofold, and for some types, between 3.5 and 5 times.

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📹 Do you know who sacked Ashton-Cirillo from the Ukrainian military and why?

Well, "they" tell Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus that this had to be done for Ukraine "to get help" from the US.

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📹 "While I defend them in public, in private I know many of them have very far-right leanings, there’s some Nazi groups"

Ashton-Cirillo spills the beans to Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus problems with foreign mercenaries in Ukraine

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🇰🇵🇺🇸 North Korea expels US soldier after illegal border crossing

The DPRK has decided to expel US serviceman Travis King following an investigation into the circumstances of his illegal entry into its territory, North Korean state media reported.

King said he "felt disgusted by the inhumane bullying and racism in the US military," and because he had lost all “illusions about American society," the report said.

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🇨🇦 Canadian Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland, granddaughter of Nazi collaborator, gets visibly uncomfortable after taking a question about the possibility of reopening an investigation into Nazi war criminals living in Canada

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“On the one hand, the United States want to support India against China, but on the other hand, they want to keep India destabilized and off-balance so that India doesn't rise too much and achieve its full potential. That's why I believe the Americans are okay with certain kinds of [anti-India] terrorists being sheltered on the territory of their closest allies,” Indian geopolitical analyst Abhijit Chavda told the New Rules podcast, commenting on the US policy towards India.

👉 How Canada is providing safe haven to violent Khalistan separatists and Ukrainian Nazis, and why the US is spearheading a covert, hybrid war against India: You can find the full episode on Rumble

⚡️US soldier Travis King is in American custody after being expelled from North Korea, a senior administration official confirms.

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️Russian troops repelled 10 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Donetsk direction; UAF losses amounted to 390 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a UAF sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Kherson region.

▪️The UAF lost more than 150 servicemen and two armored vehicles in the South Donetsk direction.

▪️Aviation and artillery of Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad destroyed an M777 artillery system and two MSTA-B howitzers;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces intercepted eight HIMARS MLRS missiles and destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones.

▪️Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad struck manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the UAF in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Russian troops repelled two attacks by the UAF in the Krasny Liman direction. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 55 servicemen.

▪️Russian troops hit command and observation posts of the UAF in the DPR and Zaporozhye region.

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